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541. Detached, new. Broomall, Sylvan Drive

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18125.jpg
Date: 1955-06
Exact location uncertain

540. Detached, new. Broomall, W. Ann Rd.

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Date: 1955-06
Exact location uncertain

536. Open. On Providence Rd., south of Edgmont

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18121.jpg
Date: 1955-06
Shows open land in Edgmont Township. Exact location uncertain.

532. Highland Homes. Wayne

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18119.jpg
Date: 1955-08
These buildings, which were low-income housing, no longer stand.

528. Detached, new. Near Thornton

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18118.jpg
Date: 1955-08
Exact location uncertain.

527. Shopping. Thornton

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Date: 1955-09
Sign reads: "Quaker Friendly Food Stores"

523. Highway. Looking east on Baltimore Pike from Brandywine Bridge, Chadd's Ford.

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18114.jpg
Date: 1955-08
This lumber-yard, a former mill, later became home of the Brandywine River Museum.

521. Roadside stand. On Baltimore Pike east of 202.

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Date: 1955-08
Green Meadows Dairy Bar, offering "quality buttermilk, homemade ice cream," and "thick milk shakes". According to newspaper advertisements, this same building later housed Green Meadow Plants. It was just north (or east, as the caption reads) of…

518. Detached, sample. West of Concordville on Baltimore Pike at intersection of Conchester Highway.

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Date: 1955-08
Three sample houses with prices under $4,000, and no money down. Exact location unknown.

515. Roadside. On Baltimore Pike west of Chester Heights

http://mediahistoricarchives.org/source/Lees/P-18107.jpg
Date: 1955-08
Exact location uncertain. Besides selling various vegetables, one sign offers sales of breeding stock of chinchillas.

512. Highway. Looking east on Baltimore Pike at cloverleaf, Lima.

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Date: 1955-08
The sign for the Clover Leaf Inn is on the right. The cloverleaf connects Route 352 (carried on the bridge) with Route 1.

509. Playground. Lansdowne Grade School

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Date: 1955-08
This is probably the East Lansdowne Elementary School.

506. Row, old. 500 block Millbank Rd., Stonehurst, Upper Darby Township

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Date: 1955-08
View is of driveway or alley in rear of houses.